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As Syria Humanitarian Crisis Grows, Donors Are In Short Supply

Donors In Short Supply As Syria Crisis Grows
Eleanor Goldberg
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Business Reporter, HuffPost

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KAMAL TAHA Syrian boy stands next to a UNHCR tent at the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, outside the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq, on August 12, 2012, as French military medics delivered aid to the camp a day after they arrived on a French cargo plane carrying tonnes of supplies and medical equipment to help tens of thousands of Syrians who fled their country's violence. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KAMAL TAHA Syrian boy stands next to a UNHCR tent at the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, outside the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq, on August 12, 2012, as French military medics delivered aid to the camp a day after they arrived on a French cargo plane carrying tonnes of supplies and medical equipment to help tens of thousands of Syrians who fled their country's violence. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages)

WASHINGTON — Facing a growing humanitarian crisis, Oxfam, the international relief agency, set a goal in January of raising $53 million to aid victims of Syria's brutal civil war. So far, Americans have contributed $150,000.

Oxfam isn't alone. Mercy Corps has collected $900,000 for Syrian refugees during the 27 months of the war, a fraction of the $2.5 million raised in a few weeks in 2006 during the one-month war between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

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